Agenda:

Tuesday, June 9th

Morning Arrival & Check-in at Sheraton (please bring posters to convening area)

2:00pm Welcome, David Imig

2:15-3:15pm Discussion & Conversation with Tony Bryk, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

3:30-5:00pm Lessons Learned - Poster Session

5:00-5:30pm Poster discussant report out

6:00pm Cocktail reception at the Sheraton

Evening Free

Wednesday, June 10th

7:00am Breakfast at the Sheraton

8:00am Spencer Report out & Continued Discussion

10:30am Common Issues & Effective Strategies group work

• Inquiry — Charol Shakeshaft(VCU)
• Distinguishing EdD — Honorine Nocon (UCD)
• Capstone — Robert Rueda (USC)
• Connecting to the Community — Colleen MacKinnon (UVM)
• Issues of Quality and Impact — Joan Bissell (CSU)
• Effective change strategies — Sharon Ryan (Rutgers)

12:00pm Lunch

1:00pm Report out from break out groups

1:30-3:30pm Principles of Best Practice for EdD programs - Barry Sheckley

5:15pm Bus to Carnegie

Evening Drinks and dinner at Carnegie

8:30pm Bus back to Sheraton

Thursday, June 11th

7:00am Breakfast

8:00am Next steps in moving CPED forward - David Imig & Jill Perry

9:00am Preparing for October, Rick McCown

8:30am Developing cases: Problems of practice

10:00 Discussion of cases

11:30am CPED Technology discussion

12:00pm Convening end & Box lunches

Details for the CPED Palo Alto Convening

For CPED members only. 

When:

Tuesday, June 9 - Thursday, June 11, 2009

*We will start at 2:00pm PST on Tuesday and end at 12:00pm PST on Thursday.*

Where:

At the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel.

Who:

We ask each CPED institution to send teams of two people—one faculty/administration and one graduate student. It is preferable that the team members who have participated in Convenings thus far return but we understand if this is not possible.

To register for the convening:

1. Complete the online registration for the Convening
2. Reserve your hotel no later than May 18, 2009

To book your hotel:

To book your hotel room, visit the event page at Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel.

625 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Phone: (650) 328-2800
Fax: (650) 327-7362

Airport Shuttle:

Mr. Shablis Azar
Silicon Valley Airporter
Tel: (800) 400-2365 or (650) 922-7340
You are responsible for your airport transportation.

Meals:

All breakfasts, welcome dinner, and lunches on Wednesday and Thursday are covered by CPED. 

Pre-Work:

There are 5 assignments but please note, they are not meant to be daunting. As we are in our 3rd year, there is much we want to be able to share among all institutions. We ask that you be clear, concise, and specific where possible. Thanks!

1.    Sharing our Accomplishments and Lessons Learned
By May 15: please inform Jill by May 15 what area your institution has chosen to higlight (you can only chose one).
For convening: Prepare a poster that the highlights accomplishments or lessons learned in one of the following areas.

• Capstone
• Inquiry
• Labs of practice
• Core Courses
• Signature pedagogy
• Assessment

We are not necessarily looking for a program update but rather the what and how—what have you done that are especially significant in one of these areas? How would you describe what you have done or learned in a way that others can learn from your accomplishments?
Posters should→
a.    Demonstrate the key lessons that your institution has learned from its CPED efforts to date in one of the six areas. This is not a summary of your program to date.
b.    Demonstrate how these lessons will foster the growth and development of your program and your highly qualified professional practice doctoral candidate
c.    Bring poster to the convening for our first day activity

2. Creating a CPED Library of Resources

By June 1: Send to Jill a syllabus of one course that your institution has developed for your new EdD to be to shared in the CPED syllabi gallery on the website.

3. Reporting to Spencer

By June 1: In order to complete our obligations to Spencer, we need to highlight our individual institutional work on assessment. Please prepare a 2-page demonstration of how your institution is examining the assessment protocol for your new program. What steps are being taken to ensure the right measures are in place to assess the knowledge and skills of your highly qualified candidate? Please send to Jill and bring one copy to the convening.

4.  Developing Problem-based cases for PPD preparation

For convening:  Develop a 2-3 page case of a problem of practice based on experience from your students. These do not need to be fully developed cases but rather problems of practice that we can work together to develop. Please send to Jill and bring a copy to the convening.

At the very least, your problem of practice should include:
-    Statement of the problem of practice
-    Statement of subsequent problems and implications
-    Identification of the important players within the organization, the "stakeholders"
-    Identification of other target groups of the organization
-    Identification of the role of the educational leader
-    Identification of strategic issues
-    Identification of decisions needed to be made
-    Identification of risk factors
-    Identification of historical precedents

5. Please read, Ruminations on Reinventing an R&D Capacity for Educational Improvement, by Tony Bryk